The aim of this paper was to determine the quota of Romance loanwords in the vernacular of Stara Novalja by examining the linguistic corpus of two semantic fields: “Clothes, footwear and accessories” and “Kitchen”. In this study participated three research subjects, the representatives of the older, middle and younger generation. They are native speakers and live in Stara Novalja since birth. After interviewing them, we made the transcription of collected data and determined the accents for each given term. Next, we did etymological and then quantitative analysis which led us to the conclusion that a significant number of Romance loanwords were present in the vernacular of Stara Novalja, especially in the older and middle generation. Although the vernacular of the representative of the younger generation mostly consist of the words belonging to the Croatian standard language, there is still a significant share of Romance loanwords in it. The middle-generation representative, along with Romance and Slavic loanwords that are present in his vernacular, also uses a significant share of German loanwords. The representatives of all three generations speak in a dialect everyday, but, according to the results of this study, we concluded that the younger generation is the one that should pay more attention to the preservation of the linguistic heritage of their ancestors.